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Strange newes from Scotland, or, A Strange relation of a terrible and prodigious monster, : borne to the amazement of all those that were spectators, in the kingdome of Scotland, in a village neere Edenborough, call'd Hadensworth, Septem. 14. 1647. and the words the said monster spake at its birth

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Publication date: 1647]
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